Sam Shepard Quotes
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.